Linux's (well Unix's) strenght is the ability to do everything. Thats why you need to be a user who isn't allowed to do some stuff:)
This would be worse than running Windows as an admin, because in Windows they have made stuff impossible to stop it being done for the wrong reasons, rather than putting a password on it. Maybe MS was right... No wait I meant Linspire is wrong.
I can't even imagine what things will be like in another 30 years...I mean, if in 1915 you told someone that in 30 years a bomb would be built powerful enough to flatten a small city, they'd laugh at you.
And if you told someone in the late summer of 1969 that in 2005 there will be no moon base, and in fact no one will have been to the moon for 30 years and no one will be planning to any time soon? You think they'll believe that?
And when we have something "better" than the atom bomb, asteroids are going to be our last concern.
My theory: they are script kiddies, and they get given IP addresses by the CIA and from Echelon which they DDOS with a botnet, blocking terrorist's communications....
Al-Qaeda is not an organisation; it's much more likely a loose group of people who have similar beliefs. And if you find a terrorist computer to break into, well, maybe you could do a traceroute and physically confiscate the computer first?
This is probably either propaganda, or aimed at governments or <hat material="tinfoil"> it will be used in some kind of huge conspiracy to damage companies that compete with US interests</hat>.
WEll, he probably doesn't really work for them. Besides, he's an AC. They can't tell who he is.
Lets see... Agents from $SOMEWHERE_EVIL discover that at least one member of this team reads Slashdot! Information they could have guessed has leaked into their hands! Some sort of terrorist incident will happen because of it!
They won't combine the plugins, because if they did then every time a stupid script kiddy puts a Flash animation in a page as a button because they can't work out how to make things change on mouseover in HTML and Javascript, the page will load as slow as a PDF. Which I think would be good, but Adobe probably doesn't want to destroy Flash as much as I do (pity).
They will integrate the flash plugin with the Acrobay PDF plugin, and flash animations will take 30 seconds to load on a 3GHz SMP machine, and THE BASTARDS WILL STOP USING FLASH!
Firstly, the article suggests that he was flirting with her when she was 15, and when he was supposed to be looking out for that sort of behavoiur. Secondly, this should be like it is with teachers and students. Don't know about other contries, but here in the UK it is illegal for school teachers to have relationships with pupils even if they are over 16 (the age of consent in the UK). He was in a position of responsibility and he abused that.
Then if for some reason they decided to distribute it, people would be allowed to modify it and create derivative GPL works to their hearts content. But why would MS distribute it?
Remember, you are only forced to release source if you release binaries. That's why you can change the source of a GPL app on your system to fix a bug without having to find an FTP server to take it. If you start handing out your modded version though, then you need to give out source as well.
It's more the (valid) excuse for people decreasing resources consumption in applications, though this distro is a bit over-the-top.
If this is actually 2.6, a lot of stuff has got to have been removed from the.config... Why not start with 2.4? Will it not fully support the hardware?
This will run SO FAST on a nice new machine with 64MB RAM and a 133Mhz Pentium, won't it?
Has it occured to you that, in edition to the conspiricy to make massive amounts of money off tickets (presumably to fund a secret branch of the military or something), there might also be an actual need for speed limits so that people don't die on the road?
Come on, speeding fines are not a major revenue source, the point is the money being taken away from the offender, not that it goes to the goverment afterwards (who of course should make no money, and shouldn't have to pay police, fire etc., because taxation is unamerican).
There are conspiricies to line people pockets, but fining speeders is not one of them. Sorry.
Worse than the startup lnks and reg entries is the apps that have "Services", which very few users know how to stop because, well, they don't see them when they press ctrl-alt-del. My Windows installation was slowing down so much I was experimenting with running some stuff under wine on the Linux partition and getting better performance, until I found that a number of apps where running services that were hogging all the resources. Iomega, for example, installed three (!) services, presumably to help the tray app that syncs with my laptop in it's docking tray. I had thought I had got rid of it when I removed the tray app from the startup. Who needs a utility like that running, waiting to be clicked on? You only need it running when you actully tell it to copy files! I think some of this is to make their apps look fast by preloading or something...
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How much does this great service cost? I can think of people I would like to have arrested...
Try too cool it, in all probability. It's the car radiators and the desk fans making the noise.
Linux's (well Unix's) strenght is the ability to do everything. Thats why you need to be a user who isn't allowed to do some stuff :)
This would be worse than running Windows as an admin, because in Windows they have made stuff impossible to stop it being done for the wrong reasons, rather than putting a password on it. Maybe MS was right... No wait I meant Linspire is wrong.
I mean that people are more likely to kill us than the asteroid.
And when we have something "better" than the atom bomb, asteroids are going to be our last concern.
Fun fun fun!
r>You wouldn't want to stop them firing! You'd want to fire randomly into the air, and make patterns and stuff...
My theory: they are script kiddies, and they get given IP addresses by the CIA and from Echelon which they DDOS with a botnet, blocking terrorist's communications....
Al-Qaeda is not an organisation; it's much more likely a loose group of people who have similar beliefs. And if you find a terrorist computer to break into, well, maybe you could do a traceroute and physically confiscate the computer first?
This is probably either propaganda, or aimed at governments or <hat material="tinfoil"> it will be used in some kind of huge conspiracy to damage companies that compete with US interests</hat>.
WEll, he probably doesn't really work for them. Besides, he's an AC. They can't tell who he is.
Lets see... Agents from $SOMEWHERE_EVIL discover that at least one member of this team reads Slashdot! Information they could have guessed has leaked into their hands! Some sort of terrorist incident will happen because of it!
They won't combine the plugins, because if they did then every time a stupid script kiddy puts a Flash animation in a page as a button because they can't work out how to make things change on mouseover in HTML and Javascript, the page will load as slow as a PDF. Which I think would be good, but Adobe probably doesn't want to destroy Flash as much as I do (pity).
No, wait... This is good!
They will integrate the flash plugin with the Acrobay PDF plugin, and flash animations will take 30 seconds to load on a 3GHz SMP machine, and THE BASTARDS WILL STOP USING FLASH!
Yes. Yes we will. The largely unused HTML support will be dropped shortly afterwards too. I mean, everyone has the PDF plugin, right?
I for one wellcome our new massive software giant overlords...
Are they going to keep the Macromedia branding and just not compete with each other, or will we see Adobe Dreameaver?
And will the flash plugin have that terrible update software like Acrobat reader?
This is probably not good for anyone except Adobe, including us.
Firstly, the article suggests that he was flirting with her when she was 15, and when he was supposed to be looking out for that sort of behavoiur. Secondly, this should be like it is with teachers and students. Don't know about other contries, but here in the UK it is illegal for school teachers to have relationships with pupils even if they are over 16 (the age of consent in the UK). He was in a position of responsibility and he abused that.
Um, isn't that like saying you need to include the uncompressed files with all tar.gz files you distribute?
OMFG! You would have to give the email's SOURCE CODE to the recipient along with the binary! That SUCKS!
Oh wait...
You already did, and there was no binary!
Then if for some reason they decided to distribute it, people would be allowed to modify it and create derivative GPL works to their hearts content. But why would MS distribute it?
Remember, you are only forced to release source if you release binaries. That's why you can change the source of a GPL app on your system to fix a bug without having to find an FTP server to take it. If you start handing out your modded version though, then you need to give out source as well.
In my experience, old RAM costs more because there is so little demand for it.
Like, lots! (No, I don't really have any :-)
.config... Why not start with 2.4? Will it not fully support the hardware?
It's more the (valid) excuse for people decreasing resources consumption in applications, though this distro is a bit over-the-top.
If this is actually 2.6, a lot of stuff has got to have been removed from the
This will run SO FAST on a nice new machine with 64MB RAM and a 133Mhz Pentium, won't it?
Oooohhh...
I forgot aaxine... Would a LAN have the bandwidth to watch DVDs over SSH with aaxine running on the server side?
OK so X would be nice, but we can still use those old boxes as SSH clients.
Nethack, anyone?
Launching an extra kilo into orbit? That's actually pretty expensive isn't it.
Has it occured to you that, in edition to the conspiricy to make massive amounts of money off tickets (presumably to fund a secret branch of the military or something), there might also be an actual need for speed limits so that people don't die on the road?
Come on, speeding fines are not a major revenue source, the point is the money being taken away from the offender, not that it goes to the goverment afterwards (who of course should make no money, and shouldn't have to pay police, fire etc., because taxation is unamerican).
There are conspiricies to line people pockets, but fining speeders is not one of them. Sorry.
Worse than the startup lnks and reg entries is the apps that have "Services", which very few users know how to stop because, well, they don't see them when they press ctrl-alt-del. My Windows installation was slowing down so much I was experimenting with running some stuff under wine on the Linux partition and getting better performance, until I found that a number of apps where running services that were hogging all the resources. Iomega, for example, installed three (!) services, presumably to help the tray app that syncs with my laptop in it's docking tray. I had thought I had got rid of it when I removed the tray app from the startup. Who needs a utility like that running, waiting to be clicked on? You only need it running when you actully tell it to copy files! I think some of this is to make their apps look fast by preloading or something...